COSY THEATRE
TWO TOP-NOTCHERS. Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea, as liandsoine a sereen team as ever charmed an audience, romp gaily through the season's most diverting comedy- romance, 44Adventure in Manhattan," which screens to-day at the Cosy Theatre. ' 'Ad venture in Manhattan" eoncerns the eh'orts of a former newspapermau turned crime novelist to solve a series of robberies engineered by a oiaster crook. As the actress friend of McCrea, Jean Arthur delivers a topnotch portrayal. McCrea enacts his role as the newspaperman with iinesso and-N conviction and brilliantly shaded humour, while Eeginald Owen makes of his character. the suavely eoi«-
tinental criminal genius, one of the most interesting sereen characters of the year. Crammed with thrills and replete with romance and sprakling comedy, Columbia's "Blaekmailer," also at the„ Cosy, rates a generous assortment o± stars as one of the most exeiting mystery dramas of the current season. William Gargan and Florenco Rice are featured in this thrilling photoplay, which cnoves with breath-taking speed from ono dynamic situation to another, effectively interpolated with comedy moments and sparkling dialogue. Other important roles are well played by H. B. Warner, Nana Bryant 'and George McKay.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 13
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